thrift
noun
[ θrɪft ]
• the quality of using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully.
• "the values of thrift and self-reliance"
Similar:
providence,
prudence,
thriftiness,
canniness,
carefulness,
good management,
good husbandry,
careful budgeting,
economy,
economizing,
saving,
scrimping and saving,
scrimping,
frugality,
abstemiousness,
parsimony,
penny-pinching,
miserliness,
forehandedness,
sparingness,
frugalness,
• a European plant which forms low-growing tufts of slender leaves with rounded pink flower heads, growing chiefly on sea cliffs and mountains.
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘prosperity, acquired wealth, success’): from Old Norse, from thrífa ‘grasp, get hold of’. Compare with thrive.
